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Guidance on popular topics

View guidance and advice that directly relates to our most popular topics within adults' and children's social care.

Autism

• Autism spectrum disorder in adults (guideline CG142)

• Autism (quality standard QS51)

• Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s (guideline CG170).

Dementia

• Supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care (guideline CG42)

• Dementia: support in health and social care (quality standard QS1)

• Dementia: independence and wellbeing (quality standard QS30)

• Delirium (guideline CG103)

• Delirium (quality standard QS63).

Fluids and nutrition

• Nutrition support for adults (guideline CG32)

• Nutrition support in adults (quality standard QS24).

Healthy workplaces

• Workplace health: management practices (guideline NG13)

• Workplace health: management practices (quality standard QS147).

Infection prevention and control

• Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care (guideline CG139)

• Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care (quality standard QS61).

Learning disability

• Learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery (guideline NG93)

• Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities (guideline NG96)

• Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management (guideline NG54)

• Learning disabilities: identifying and managing mental health problems (quality standard QS142)

• Prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges (guideline NG11)

• Learning disabilities: challenging behaviour (quality standard QS101).

Medicines management and health related activity

• Managing medicines in care homes (guideline SC1)

• Managing medicines in care homes (quality standard QS85)

• Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community (guideline NG67)

• Oral health for adults in care homes (guideline NG48)

• Oral health for adults in care homes (quality standard QS151)

• Pressure ulcers (guideline CG179)

• Pressure ulcers (quality standard QS89).

Mental health

• Depression in adults: recognition and management (guideline CG90)

• Mental wellbeing of older people in care homes (quality standard QS50)

• Mental wellbeing and independence for older people (quality standard QS137)

• Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings (guideline NG53)

• Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings (quality standard QS159)

• Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services (guideline NG58)

• Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (guideline NG66)

• Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (quality standard QS163)

• Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings (guideline NG10)

• Violent and aggressive behaviours in people with mental health problems (quality standard QS154)

• Depression in children and young people: identification and management (guideline CG28)

• Depression in children and young people (quality standard QS48).

Privacy and dignity

• Improving the experience of care and support for people using adult social care services (guideline NG86)

• Decision making and mental capacity.

Quality and leadership

• Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes (guideline NG21)

• Home for older people (quality standard QS123)

• Intermediate care including reablement (guideline NG74)

• Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs (guideline NG27).

Safeguarding

• Domestic violence and abuse: multi-agency working (guideline PH50)

• Domestic violence and abuse (quality standard QS116)

• Delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes (guideline NG21)

• Drug misuse prevention (quality standard QS165)

• Child abuse and neglect (guideline NG76)

• Harmful sexual behaviour among children and young people (guideline NG55)

• Looked-after children and young people (guideline PH28)

• Looked-after children and young people (quality standard QS31)

• Social and emotional wellbeing: early years (guideline PH40).

Work in a person-centred way

• Adult social care: improving people’s experience (guideline NG86)

• Older people: independence & mental wellbeing (guideline NG32)

• Mental wellbeing and independence for older people (quality standard QS137)

• Mental wellbeing of older people in care homes (quality standard QS50).

Further resources

Our guidance

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Quality and CQC inspections

Download our quality improvement resource. It can help you to find individual quality statements and medicines recommendations, mapped against CQC adult social care framework key lines of enquiry.

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